Stevie Ray Vaughan Discussion

[TTrahan]

What do you guys think about making this thread a "Questions about SRV's axes" thread?

I have a few questions, so I'll go first.

1. I've alway had some thoughts about building a guitar with the Dano Lipstick pickups in it. Do the Dano pickups require special routing and a special pickgaurd?

2. In the 1985 New Jersey concert I have, SRV plays a red guitar (that isn't Lenny) with a black pickgaurd. Any ideas if this is the guitar "Red", but with a different pickgaurd?

He also plays scotch during that concert, but it was before he put that tortoise shell looking pickgaurd on it.

Cheers,

Troy

[Vaughanabe13]

1. Any single coil pickup will drop into an existing single coil setup. Any humbucker will drop into a humbucker slot. The only thing that wouldn't work is trying to put a humbucker in a single coil slot. To do that the guitar body would need to be rerouted for the pickup to fit. Otherwise any single coil pickup should fit with no extra routing or pickguards necessary.

2. My guess is you were seeing Red in that video. SRV was known to change his pickguards from time to time (after all, the original Number One Pickguard was white, I believe, until he replaced it with the black one we all know). My guess is he was in a transition stage and was experimenting with different gear and looks.

[TTrahan]

Cool, thanks for the info about the pickups.

I agree that the guitar is "Red". Glad to know someone thinks the same.

Was "red" also the guitar that he occasionally had a reverse headstock on?

[Vaughanabe13]

That I'm not sure of...anyone?

[TTrahan]

I found some info on the reverse headstock dilemma concerning "Red"..

From Custom Sounds

Stevie even but a lefthanded neck to Red. Red originally had a right-handed, rosewood neck. I remember it was late 1986 when Stevie put a lefty neck on Red. In February, 1987 it was lefthanded, you can see that on many photos and videos.

[bluz_playa85]

[Vaughanabe13]

Ok smart guy, then find me a Fender pickguard with larger-than-normal single coil slots.

[bluz_playa85]

[59strat]

lol

[Russell]

I read somewhere (Sorry for the cliche) that a problem developed with No1 during the recording of Texas Flood (the album). Because of the tone of the guitar on that particular album I think it was Charley through the Dumble. Its quite a trebly sound; SRV's sound did seem to go a bit smoother on later albums.

I have an SRV No. 1 I've made, and without Texas Specials (83 Strat pick ups) it sounds really close to Texas Flood (through ANY amp!). I wonder if this could be swimming pool routing. Its got all SRV parts, but its not a Fender body.

I played a few signature Strats (inc. SRV) in Birmingham recently and they were all crap. They were on a Fender stand, so its unthinkable they weren't set up properly.

[Deezer]

No, it wasn't Charley. Stevie obtained Charley in 1984. Hence the inscription on the back of the headstock by Charley Wirz: To Stevie Ray Vaughan: More in '84. However, you might be referring to In Step. He used a white Strat with a Tele neck. He said in an interview that the high e string was vibrating badly, and that Number One's neck was wearing out. I think this was before the new neck job Number One got. Didn't it get broke in 1990 a few weeks before he died? And then Rene replaced it with the neck off of Scotch or something like that. I'm pretty sure that's right, but I'm not 100%. However, I am certain it was not Charley on Texas Flood.

Oh, by the way, I'm new, but not new to Stevie. Love the man and his music. Y'all take care.
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[Russell]

Doh!!! Thanks Deez - I Stand corrected!

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